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Jim Harris on January 9, 2012
Evil For Evil by James R. Benn

I have just completed James Benn’s 4th installment of Billy Boyle WWII mysteries, Evil for Evil.

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Jim Harris on December 27, 2011
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse

I urge you to disregard Publisher Weekly’s review of (and other negative reviews of) Kate Mosse’s Sepulchre.

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Jennifer W. on December 15, 2011
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl by Shauna Reid

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl by Shauna Reid is the perfect book to read if weight loss is on your New Year’s resolution list.

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Shadow Moon by Marilee Brothers

This is the 4th book in the Unbidden Magic series. It takes place in peacock flats, Washington following Allie through school, boundless (faery land lol).

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I’ve read this lovely little classic before, but each and every time I get around to re-reading it, I discover new joys in amongst its already engaging Regency charm and Austentatious wit.

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Pat Minney on December 12, 2011
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

My favorite book of 2011 was Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.

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Deb Harmon on December 6, 2011
The Submission by Amy Waldman

Engaging, thought-provoking and interesting.

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The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

I’ve been reading popular kids books to be able to recommend appropriate books to my students.

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Anne Ciochetto on December 2, 2011
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd

British mystery set during WWI – great historical detail, including the post-battlefield effects of shell-shock on soldiers and their families; could be reading about PTSD today.

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Cathy Scholtens on December 1, 2011
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee

Reading this now. A friend loaned it to me as it is very hard to find in print.

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Over a twenty year period spanning my 20s and 30s, during which I cobbled together a living variously hacking up roadkill, slinging spaghetti, checking water meters, tending bar, washing dishes, working car lots, telemarketing sunglasses, and making an ass of myself on FM radio, I wrote seven unpublished novels. It’s what I did. I wrote unpublished novels. It[…]

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“In this tender letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. This beautiful book is about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths.”—Mockingbird Books, Seattle. Buy Of Thee I Sing from Mockingbird Books.

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It made for a good story last week when some independent booksellers became critical of Seattle’s most famous librarian after she formed a partnership with Amazon to publish a few out-of-print books. What kind of story, though? It all depends on how you frame it. There’s the story that The Seattle Times told last weekend and the story[…]

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Here Comes The Snow Child! posted by Jamie, January 25th, 2012
There’s been lots of early buzz for bookseller Eowyn Ivey’s debut, The Snow Child, which officially comes out Feb 1 (We’ve got word from some of our bookstores that they’ve already got it on the shelves). Ivey, who works at Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska and who we interviewed here about the double life of[…]

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Two Out of Three ‘Rebel Memoirs’ Made in Portland posted by Jamie, January 18th, 2012
Nice to hear Portland indie publisher Hawthorne Books recognized in a recent NPR story about memoir—twice. In one of those segments where an author selects three books to recommend, memoirist Marion Winik (The Glen Rock Book of the Dead) chose ‘rebel memoirs,’ including The Chronology of Water by Portland’s Lidia Yuknavitch (a recent

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Tarnished Pearl posted by Brian, January 12th, 2012
Amazon announced yesterday that Seattle super-librarian Nancy Pearl has signed a contract with the company to launch the Book Lust Rediscoveries series. Amazon’s press release reads: “Book Lust Rediscoveries will publish approximately six books a year and will be made available for sale in print editions via Amazon.com and as audiobooks via Amazon.com and Audible.com, at bookstores, wholesalers and libraries nationwide and[…]

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2012 Oregon Book Award Finalists Announced posted by Jamie, January 9th, 2012
Congratulations to the 2012 Oregon Book Award finalists, who were announced today.
There are a couple of overlaps with the 2012 PNBA Awards winners, including Patrick deWitt, who was nominated for a Ken Kesey Award for fiction for The Sisters Brothers and Lidia Yuknavitch, nominated for a Sarah Winnemucca[…]

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Annie Bloom’s: It Takes a Village, et al. posted by Brian, January 7th, 2012
Though it’s not an easy thing to come by when you run an indie bookstore, the owner and the manager of Southwest Portland’s Annie Bloom’s Books each took advantage of  ”A Lucid Interval” (believe it or not, the store’s almost-name 33 years ago) to share with OregonLive some reasons why 2011′s evaluation and 2012′s outlook[…]

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Inklings’ 2011 Bestseller List a Portrait of Yakima and Indie Power posted by Jamie, January 6th, 2012
In her regular column for the Yakima Herald-Republic, Inklings Bookshop owner Susan Richmond muses on the store’s 2011 bestseller list, noting how unique it is compared to some of the national bestseller lists and how it’s “sprinkled with sparkling gems reflecting different facets of our unique reading character (and characters).”
Half of the titles on the store’s top[…]

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2012 NW Independent Book Awards Announced! posted by Jamie, January 5th, 2012
Our group, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, announced the winners of the 2012 Pacific Northwest Book Awards today. Congratulations to Patrick deWitt (The Sisters Brothers), Jonathan Evison (West of Here), Thor Hanson (Feathers), Ismet Prcic (Shards), Craig Thompson (Habibi) and Lidia Yuknavitch (The Chronology of Water)! An awards committee of nine indie booksellers selected these titles from nearly[…]

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What to Wear When You Sell Used Books posted by Jamie, January 3rd, 2012
Cruising around on the University Book Store’s site the other day, we found the online home for one of our favorite pieces of bookstore merch from the last few years, the USED BUT NEAR FINE T-shirt (here for women’s, here for men’s). Remember? Longtime buyer Nick DiMartino wore it in

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28 Thank-You Notes posted by Jamie, December 29th, 2011
Here’s a big thanks to the 28 authors who sent us holiday gift lists for our inaugural 28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List series, which wrapped up yesterday. Authors, your lists were generous and often funny and full of ideas that showed off your bookselling acumen. You sent us searching for books we’d[…]

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Diamond Days for Timberline posted by Brian, December 19th, 2011
Though the 75th Anniversary party doesn’t officially kick off until 2012, Timberline Lodge embodies just too much wintery, holiday spirit to sit on the story until then. The Lodge’s operators, RLK and Company, have dug into Timberline’s history to bring us the “Timberline Timeline,” now available on a new heritage site. The Diamond Jubilee Edition[…]

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